Hey Malcolm! There's some stuff I haven't seen in here before. I'm going to give my honest opinion but take what you will from it, it's just my opinion :) Also, are you applying for a job with this, or like Bobby asked, Calarts? Applying to a job and applying to school will be very different. Anyway, there are a few things I would suggest taking out, either because it sticks out as being weaker or rushed and I don't think it does much for your portfolio. Character design: I think your portfolio would work better without the Squiggly character. To me it feels kinda sloppy. The overall design feels really generic (it reminds me of something else, maybe Eric Goldberg's example character from his book? I'm not sure) and the squiggly outline looks really rushed and sloppy. The first pages are way stronger, you can tell that you've improved and spent more time on them. The bird's rough body poses are a little weaker than the other bird pages as well i think. It might be a matter of just redrawing them and making them more solid. The expressions are pretty good though. The second bird expression page looks squished, I'm not sure why. Illustration: there's some good stuff in here. I would definitely take out the Reflection one though, I don't think it's a positive piece and seems a little too personal for your portfolio. I don't think people want to see you putting yourself down (assuming it's supposed to be you), it just doesn't leave a good impression. I would maaaaybe take out the one with the car because the car is pretty weak, and the cop has no eyes and his nose doesn't looks like a nose, it's almost blending too much with his face. Sketchbook: I would take out the two coloured pieces, they don't feel like they're real studies, and they don't go with anything else in the sketchbook part. Life drawing: The second page I think is one of the strongest life drawings you have, the girl lying on the floor is really nice. Also the dude with the goatee is also pretty good. The rest I feel are weaker because I see a lot of proportion problems. That doesn't really help you at this point because ctn is so soon, but even after ctn, if you get a chance to, do some more to get some stronger drawings for your portfolio. Also, make sure that your photos/scans aren't blurry. It would be a lot more professional to have crisp photos with good lighting. Anyway, with that being said, the green witch is really weak, and the hat is reflecting so it's really hard to tell what's going on. The girl on that page is pretty good though. I think for next time, avoid adding the colour unless you're going to take some more time to do it, it looks super rushed. Also with colour and shading with life drawing, you have to make sure the drawing is working really well because I think it just starts to muddy up the drawings, unless you're doing an illustrationy way of life drawing where the shadows help you block out the pose, but I don't think this is the case with these ones. Anyway, that's all I got! I hope this helps. Also plz don't hate me, lol!

Ah, that seems to happen. I went to Poland once for a month and I was able to communicate better in Polish, but then forgot everything a few weeks after. I understand a lot more than I can speak though, somehow the grammer just doesn't stick in my head. Which sucks because I can't really talk with my Grandma :p

Mario, can you speak Polish fluently?
I'm the youngest child in my family...so my parents kind of just gave up on trying to teach me :p

Hey Malcolm,

I'm not sure about the other schools, but Sheridan looks for a specific kind of life drawing for their animation program.
They tend to lean towards the realistic side of life drawing; they want to know that you have a good beginners sense of proportion, weight, line quality etc.

You can see some samples of past accepted portfolios here: http://portreview.blogspot.com/

Sheridan also has specific portfolio requirements that you need to meet; showing overall good drawings skill is definitely important in life drawing, layuot, still life and character design.

So from what I can tell, most of the life drawings you have up are more illustration-y. There are a few in there though that are really close. Don't worry about getting the likeness of the model though, just have a basic face with correct and important landmarks but concentrate on the proportions and weight of the figure.